The Skinless Face by Donald Tyson

Fourteen spine-tingling excursions into realms of nightmare in the tradition of H. P. Lovecraft, including two full-length novellas never before published, will leave you longing for refuge. Here hide horrors that burrow under the skin to lay eggs of anguish inside the brain. Waking them may mean never sleeping again … or sleeping forever. Thousands of years ago, a civilization that inhabited the Gobi Desert chiseled off the face of their stone god. Now modern technology will recreate the visage they destroyed.… Nova Scotian sailors have a charming custom of saluting an isolated rock formation that resembles a mother and child … but it is an inhuman statue of something else entirely.… A dark lake hides more than a bereft father’s grief.… A doomed beast learns what being a monster truly means.… The unguessable secrets behind the House of Usher are unveiled by an unwilling guest.… Witch-kin may be worse than no family at all for a lonely youth.… A nursing job at a care facility in Innsmo